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Date: 19 August 2024

Author: Nicholas D. Anderson

Title: Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agent Shape World Politics

Contact: nick_anderson@gwu.edu

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Thank you for your interest in the supplementary material accompanying Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral
Agents Shape World Politics. Everything necessary to replicate the results in the book and appendix and to make use 
of the data is included in the supplemental material.

The files included in the supplemental material are:

1. Inadvertent_expansion_data_v1.1.csv -- This is the dataset presented and analyzed in the book, comprising 258
   observations of great power territorial expansion between 1816 and 2014.

2. Inadvertent Expansion - Replication File.R -- This is the R code needed to replicate the results of the analysis 
   presented in the book and the appendix.

3. Inadvertent Expansion - Appendix.pdf -- This is the appendix that accompanies the book.

4. Inadvertent Expansion - Codebook.pdf -- This is the codebook accompanying the dataset. It describes the data and 
   collection procedures, and incldues a narrative description of, and sourcing for, each and every observation in the 
   data.

To replicate the results of the analysis presented in the book and appendix, you'll need items 1 and 2.

Save file 1 on your hard drive and then use the R code in file 2 to run the analysis.

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